Picturing the Presidents

Femme Fatale: The Nightmare Come True

The passionate story of the femme fatale, seductive and dangerous, a myth and a fantasy, through her representation in art.

2023

JFK

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

1991

Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason

French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).

2019

Evita

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator

1996

Botticelli – Inferno

The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey through

2016

President Trump: Tweets from the White House

The engrossing one-hour special uses evocative archive and a cast of charismatic political experts and former members of Trump's administration, to un

2020

Inside The Presidency: Eisenhower Vs. Nixon

Details events involving Eisenhower and Nixon

2001

Geniale Frauen - Malerinnen von der Renaissance bis zum Klassizismus

2024

The President

Cameroonian filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bekolo's newest work uses split-screens (at times, up to four images simultaneously) to present a fake documentary i

2013

China's Van Goghs

An intimate portrait of a peasant-turned oil painter transitioning from making copies of iconic Western paintings to creating his own authentic works

2016

Thomas Hart Benton

Thomas Hart Benton's paintings were energetic and uncompromising. Today his works are in museums, but Benton hung them in saloons for ordinary people

1989

Miss Hokusai

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

2015

Invictus

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his

2009

The Meeting of President Taft and President Díaz at El Paso, Texas

The first meeting of a U.S. president and a Mexican president took place when William Howard Taft met Porfirio Díaz on 16 October 1909, in El Paso. Th

1909

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

Boogie Man is a comprehensive look at political strategist, racist, and former Republican National Convention Committee chairman, Lee Atwater, who rei

2008

Battlefield Gender

Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artis

2019

Rivercide: The Secret Six

The Grand Canal project was one of the key pledges of the former President Lee. He first said that he was carrying out a project to save the four rive

2019

James Ensor: Demons Teasing Me

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

2010

Modigliani et ses secrets

Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled

2020

Giscard, l'impossible retour

2014